Right, lets see:
- Suicide Squad - I honestly have nothing good to say about this steaming pile of shit, and it is the worst movie I have ever watched. Hate isn't a word I use to describe my thoughts towards much, but I hate every aspect of this film without exception. The aesthetic choices are fucking awful without exception, the humour makes me want to bang my head against wall because it is insultingly awful, the character writing (ESPECIALLY Harley) is painfully dreadful, nothing that happens on screen makes any fucking sense; the list goes on. Perhaps what's worse is that people seemed to think that this pathetic excuse for entertainment even resembled the concept of "middling," which just makes me question whether we were even watching the same movie because I can’t see how anyone with any sense would have anything positive to say about this. (This is coming from someone who finds positive things to say about almost everything and can respect where the appeal of most stuff I dislike comes from.)
- Media telling me what I should feel at what time - Clannad isn’t the worst anime I have ever watched by a long shot, but it is probably the one which annoys me the most. The fact that Nagisa’s death (I’d say spoiler alert but it’s been 10 years and, as such, is your fault if you get spoiled) is put in there for the sole purpose of trying to make its viewer cry despite the fact that it is completely devoid of any real reason to make me want to feel even remotely sad. Canned laughter is the worst part of sitcoms because it is basically the show going “this is funny.” These attempts to manipulate me as a viewer just insult my intelligence and it really gets under my skin,
- Cringe humour - This is probably really out of left-field considering I’m a Brit, but this is painful rather than funny. As much as I think Miranda has plenty of funny stuff going on, I just can’t say that I like it in good concience because it just relies so heavily on deliberately making its viewer cringe. This is a common theme across British comedy that I fucking hate; watching something that is quite obviously going to go wrong is not a substitute for being funny, and I just can’t watch that kind of shit.
- Unbalance - You know Newton’s third law? "Every action must have an equal and opposite reaction." Well, if everything in my life doesn’t follow something similar to that it makes me extremely uncomfortable; if I have a scroller mouse, for instance, I need to move it out of the scrolling area and roll it back the same number of clicks that I scrolled down if I want the action to not feel incomplete and comfortable. The same goes for the number of steps I take on each foot during short journeys (<100 steps), with me being known to stop at doorways to step on the other foot before I walk through. I can’t stand having one earphone dead because it leaves a painful silence on one side but not the other (although I actually like this effect when it is deliberate within music, such as in the OST for the abandoned shopping mart where you catch Mimikyu in Pokemon SM). These are all things that most people don’t really feel that strongly about, but I really dislike these types of things to the point that I can’t realistically call it a mere pet peeve. The same happens when visual patterns are broken because they create an unbalance in what I am looking at—symmetry is lost, and as such I want to rip my hair out until it is fixed.
The next few are more pet peeves than bog-standard "things I dislike"
- "emotional" covers of songs being used in ads — Oh my GOD it pisses me off so much when I’m on the ad break on E4 or whatever and then a Lloyds TSB ad comes on and they have one of those stupid covers of a song which has a woman singing a somg slowly through their nose with just a series of pedal piano chords behind it like jesus christ why don’t these people understand that quite literally noone on the fucking planet thinks this sounds good or is persuaded to use their product because they see a fucking horse running in slow motion with this brand of ear rape behind it? It’s insulting to both my intelligence and my ears.
- ads about "family warmth" or which use "inspirational" speeches - these also insult my intelligence while not remotely helping to sell the product, and they also make the company look really fucking crappy, like dear fuck you’re a multi-million-pound organisation for christ sake don’t give me this shit.
- people who use generic as a standalone criticism - generic is a statement which has no inherent negative connotations attached to it. Explain why it’s bad contextually rather than using it as an excuse to reduce a score without elaboration.
- people who think death is inherently sad - there is nothing inherently sad about someone you don’t know or have any reason to care about dying; to link this back to earlier in my post, people who refer to Nagisa from Clannad dying in their "saddest anime scenes" really annoy me ‘cause that shit is one of the most unsad events I have ever seen in fiction because there is literally 0 reason to care that she is dead. I can extend this across a lot of other fictional and non-fictional contexts and the logic still applies; learn how to control your emotions to some remote degree or don’t tell me that something is sad.
